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Doi: https://doi.org/10.54216/IJWAC.040102
Industrial robots have made it possible for manufacturers to make elevated low-cost products, which are thus major elements of advanced production technologies. Welding, cleaning, assembling, dismantling, slotting for computer chips, labeling requirements, stacking pallets, quality inspection, and monitoring are just a few of the applications for robotic systems. All the features are completed with a high level of endurance, speed, and accuracy. Multiple and competing criteria must be assessed simultaneously in a comprehensive selection analysis to identify the effectiveness of robots. To provide an automated machine for such arc machining operation, simple multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) technique based on the COPRAS method is described in this work. The COPRAS method calculates significance weights using objective preferences and ranks the options. The COPRAS technique was used to determine the ranking order. The findings revealed that MCDM techniques for robot selection are extremely useful. The study's peculiarity is that it uses COPRAS MCDM approaches to select industrial arc welding robots.
MCDM , Robot , Industrial , COPRAS
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